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Gold chains are down close to foil and very thin ones tip into the iron range. Good chance your base discrimination knocked it out. Lucky find by eye!

Be nice if they make a 5x9 1/2 for the Legend then it would be really good for that purpose. Too bad about GK being discontinued but if it was knock senstive then it would be useless. Any machine that is noisy or knock sensitive is counter productive.

What about a rechargeable amplifier? Saw this on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Neoteck-Headphone-Amplifier-Rechargeble-Computers/dp/B01MS22YWV/ref=sr_1_12?crid=31CN8GPHKQUN4&keywords=headphone%2Bamplifier%2Bportable&qid=1669778792&sprefix=headphone%2Bamplif%2Caps%2C300&sr=8-12&th=1 Might be some 1/4" jack versions out there or use an adapter. Some have equilizers so you could tweak the audio to fit your hearing loss. Has anyone tried one? Don't see why it wouldn't work.

One tiny coin! How does that compare to a willow tree? Congrats.

Threaded piece with bolt holes must have been used to mount something, maybe a threaded rod went to it? Others look like crude rope guides. Might have been from a wagon or farm equipment? Love finding odd bits and trying to figure out what they are.

Still a few left on Backwoods Ebay store here: https://www.ebay.com/itm/275500132395?hash=item402516682b:g:H3MAAOSw1zxi1LiJ&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAoLV%2BCYH8kAb7Fzagnt15sBnu1rzkUlLtxvsi8bTi90plR0v0gJJZBzI6806FvkZFMyqq7Rc2vYxLMuvohsEVIvftE5UYC32uRwZpF4ZhvcwHwiZ45VYFJh20h79aMCRtiIO0CxBpM0zLtLo0xzAZFMmpWjk57Peg3aE0k2LuglTce9uWuxykMabRnh59UNLvGszE72Vbm53Ka2mBSwEuWZw%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR9a2q_CQYQ Als can call Rich directly if you like as he does the foot work for me. Let me know if you have any questions etc. Thanks so much, Ken

Here in New England and in particular the coastal areas we have quite a bit of magnetite and iron ore so pretty much all IB machines act very similar and id numbers are not very relevant unless your park hunting for coins and jewelry. Other than sanded beaches the real coast line looks like this: Only machine I have that punches through this stuff is my PI if I don't mind digging the tons of iron trash which makes hunting very slow. Depending on tone breaks for me has been a mixed bag in old grounds, running frequencies from 5khz to 56 khz and even SMF haven't had any earth shattering difference in id quality once you start going for deeper targets so what has worked is to keep my hunting at least in the older sites I hunt is to just kiss out the cut nails if the area has a lot of them and dig the softer deeper targets. Ironically I'm down to a few machines. My Tesoro's with concentric coils and the Gold Racer where I watch and listen for target id behavior rather than a particular number and only use the id's on that as a crude guesstimate of metal type. I think the fact that none of those particular machines lock onto targets helps me in many cases in as I can listen past the targets above but it can take some work to isolate a target. Jeff ever think of using a dirt filled tube instead of foam to better represent the ground in your test?

You test and see how it handles 3d masking? Put a cut nail above a silver and see if you can tune out the nail and still hit the coin. Tejon does well with a cut nail above a trime.

So threshold varies between headphones? My guess is there are variations between the brands and how they respond to the unit. Not a big deal really. I use the Makro Multi Kruzer and with the wireless headphones volume of 3-4 is plenty loud but if I use the waterproof headphones I have to set the volume to 10. More of a quirk than a bug.

Possibly a wax seal stamp, wold have a post on the back that fit to a wood handle. Careful cleaning you might see a pattern on the rim side.

Some nice finds there. If that was a coin of sorts then the rim would be on both sides. Could be a button that might have been enameled.

If you are really interested in the hobby and want to know more about the evolution of the machines Inside the Metal Detector is a good read. Amazon sells them. People will all have their reasons for what ever machines they think are ground breaking from their successes but end of the day the machines are very similar.

Really good shape too, nice!

Gold Racer here, the ID's are solid to the extent of the audio, boost mode if your not sure if your hearing a fringe target.

Got tired of waiting for support to contact back so I took the machine apart and noticed one the screws inside was rusty so as I suspected it got wet inside which caused the problem. I dried it all out and replaced the dessicant pack with 4 fresh one then resealed the main seal with silicone grease. All the other spots I suspected would leak are all epoxied behind so the breach was from the main seal. Made servicing it pretty easy. Tested the machine and all seems to be working well. Now for the Superfly, seems that coil has lost performance. I think it is the chincy coil connector they as the connector has plastic nuts that attach to the aluminum (not stainless) connector so got a feeling the shielding is compromised. Guess that goes in the trash since Nel isn't exactly up and running. So anyone with an Anfibio or Kruzer series if your machine just starts to overlaod it is most likely water inside.

Doesn't the fireball exist only when the object passes through the atmosphere? Impact like that you would think would leave a crater.

You would think the house would be smashed more than burned. Unless of course it hit his meth lab....

Maybe snag a machine that has vibration like the Nokta machines have. It will atleast give you an indication if there is a target under your coil and can look at the id's.

The 10x12 widescan coil is good in moderate and low trash conditions where you may want depth but will mask out as do other dd coils as that is the nature of the dd coil. Tesoro's really shine with the concentrics and ability to silence out iron nails without losing coins even when iron is on top. They also don't silent mask when small iron is present (when you hear nothing and targets are below small iron). If you only have one machine then a dd would be a good 2nd choice.

Over the summer I had snagged the 5x9.5 dd coil and been using the MK for my high trash and smaller target hunting. I had used it water hunting at 19khz and noticed it would start overloading then would quiet down. At first I thought it was something large under the sand and thought not much about it. Later I put my 12" super fly on for a beach hunt and the performance was horrible, less than half the depth it usually does but the beach I was hunting is loaded with hot rocks and black sand. I did notice some fogging behind the display. Later when I got home I opened it up, dried it out, resealed the gasket and noticed the rubber boot on the control box where the headphones/charger cable connect wasn't very tight so I resealed that. Couple days ago did some more water hunting and the machine started to overload again. When I got home I tried a factory reset and no matter what coil I put on the machine overlaods in all modes except beach mode and 5khz. Reinstalled the last update but that doesn't fix it. Has anyone else run into this? Is the machine toast? Emailed Nokta but haven't heard back.

No pics? Nickels here get roasted. Lucky you got one you can read the date. Congrats

Big sale on Nokta Legend at Serious Detecting. Worth a look.

Poor Ace 😞

Worms did that, got tired of him taking all their coins 🙂

Cors Shrew does work really well for shallow hunting in high trash areas, makes for a good cherry picker in parks.